I know how you feel about this and understand your point about Kerwin, but I still think it's too early in his career for the Gator Head Coach-job. He's less than 2 years out of highschool coaching, for goodness sake. He's come very far, very fast, and I suspect there's a certain inevitability to his eventual ascension to that height one day. For now, though, E-94's excellent summary of reasons for his going through at least a couple more job situations before being ready still apply.
Who, then? Lots of talk on TV, radio and the 'net. Just watched a "Top Ten Urban Meyer-Coached Moments" on SportsCenter, which included some Utah-moments along with the obvious Gator ones, and two things struck me. The first was, "That's one of the guys I keep forgetting about, the PRESENT coach at Utah!". I forget his name, but could Foley go to that well twice? Like Urban, he's done a lot with not-that-much there at Utah, and I believe he is one of those "innovative disciples" of Meyer's Power-Spread.
The second thing that occurred to me was how when you saw Urban highly involved in the offense on the sideline, that team was a dynamic expression of his offensive philosophy ADAPTED to the skills of the players he had AND specific exploitation of the opponents' defense. We know that was less so LAST season and almost GONE by this one...and suggests what we can and will expect to gain BACK in whomever is the next Head Coach of the Florida Gators.